Pappy1600 Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 How easy some forget! I will never forget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Exactly never forget! Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EngrBob Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Everyone remember where they were? I was on a Delta B767-400 that was to be the last aircraft to land at Logan that day. It was a flight that I had taken often from Orlando to Boston through Atlanta. Only on this Tuesday morning instead of flying directly over lower Manhattan we were probably 75 miles offshore, and a column of smoke was rising from near the edge of the water. All of a sudden the column of smoke expanded dramatically. I remember looking at my watch and noticed it was 10 AM. Later, on final approach to Logan I observed that the typical queue of departing aircraft did not exist. After touchdown the pilot did a 180 on the runway and back taxied to the terminal. As we exited the aircraft the terminal was dark and a double line of state troopers escorted passengers to baggage claim. Since I was working on a contract for Massport I went to their offices and only then found out what had happened.Since it was a day trip (I was supposed to return that evening) I had no luggage or anything else. Fortunately my sister and her husband live in Boston so they came home that evening to find me sitting on the stoop in front of their apartment building. Thursday morning I was finally able to obtain a rental car (the firm I was working for had a national contract with Hertz) and I began the drive back to Orlando. I-95 basically takes you across the GW and to the NJ Turnpike which runs along lower Manhattan. The still smoking pile of rubble that was once the twin towers was clearly visible as I drove by. A sight I will never forget, created by an act that I will never forgive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I was sitting in my electrical fundamentals class at black hawk technical college. A nurses go student came in with a radio telling us what had happened, we thought she was crazy. We all went to the commons area just in time to watch the 2nd plane hit on the big screen in the lounge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I was at gal's home....she was having ac problems and we were waiting on a tech....we had just walked into the living room seeing the second plane hitting the building...ac tech knocked on door came in and he and us just sat there on the couch cant believing what we were seeing...sad sad day Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Just passed the fire station in my small town. I got a strange sensation in my eyes and nose....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikedaddyH Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 I watched the replay of the NBC Today show from 9/11/01 this morning... AGAIN !Never Forget ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy1600 Posted September 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 On 9/11/01 , it was such a beautiful clear day here in NY I decided to grab the fly rod and hit the streams first thing in the morning, I was returning home around 11:00am and was listing to the radio, but wasn't really listening (day dreaming) I pulled into my driveway and found my wife sitting at the end of the driveway in the car, I pulled up and asked her what she was doing? She replied with " We're under ATTACK!!" I really thought she lost her mind and began looking around and reaching for my pistol, then she had explained how that the World Trade Center was no longer there... I couldn't believe it until I went to the house and turned the TV on.. Talk about RAGE!! We were on Standby to get deployed to Ground Zero for days.. Funny thing is back in the early 90's I processed for Port Authority Police Department right in One World Trade center, but decided I did not want my kids growing up in the city so I turned the position down. Who knows what would of happened if I did take the job, I probably wouldn't be here today typing this, I believe everyone has some plan in life and a destiny, I guess my destiny was to not work for PAPD. My thoughts go out to all my brothers and sisters that did not make it home that day, and all those that were murdered! the pictures above are my pictures from visiting Ground Zero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Pappy I think that's what the nursing student said too we're under attack a plane flew into a building in NYC, I wasn't thinking commercial jetliner when she said that!!!and I 100% agree with you, we all have a plan on this rock, when its your time it's your time....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgecrusher Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 http://youtu.be/J0S0UwqgYBY hope this works, god damn if it isn't a reminder that this could be my kids, or any of my brothers in blue, after a bad day of work. I cry every time. I will not forget. I CANT FORGIVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy1600 Posted September 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Here is a true Hero, a headstone above my fathers grave, Jeremy Logan Glick, was one of the passangers on United 93 that acted so selflessly to engage the hijackers on 9/11, You will not be forgotten. I pray for you and your family every time we visit, We always leave an American Flag for a true Patriot. God bless you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted September 11, 2015 Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 (edited) RIP Mr. Glick, we need more of your kind in our time. Edited September 11, 2015 by Matt.Cross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 One of the saddest fukin days of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 One of the most bizarre days of my life. Being able to look up and not see a single plane (short of fighters) in the sky. In DC......there's always planes in the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 (edited) One of the most bizarre days of my life. Being able to look up and not see a single plane (short of fighters) in the sky. In DC......there's always planes in the air.a guy I was in tech school with said his uncle whom lived near o'hare in Chicago, had a hard time sleeping at night it was to quiet Edited September 13, 2015 by shepp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtallen83 Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 I was laying tile in the kitchen of a church we were building, listened to the events on the radio while I worked. Lots of local church members showed up for prayer and fellowship. My thoughts were mostly on relatives that I knew would be in harm's way soon. Took longer than I thought but they kicked ass when the time came! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 I arrived to work as normal and at the time the radio was breaking news. I thought the local radio was goofing untill i reached the job! The biggest man on site was a volenteer fire fighter making a living as a havc installer was in full on tears!! Really hit hard when i saw that! Then all the news and devastation on tv! Never forget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 Was a wierd day for me my buddy and I were at 6000 ftt hunting elk with bows he had just shot a elk and we were back at the truck and he turned on the radio and that is when we heard the news what would have been a celebration day for getting a elk turned into a day of sadness and concern for this country, I had a friend tan that elk hide and another friend paint it it hangs on my living room wall on top of a buffalo robe always a reminder for the evil done that day but also a reminder of the great people we lost and the ones who gave everything to try and help others..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 Was a wierd day for me my buddy and I were at 6000 ftt hunting elk with bows he had just shot a elk and we were back at the truck and he turned on the radio and that is when we heard the news what would have been a celebration day for getting a elk turned into a day of sadness and concern for this country, I had a friend tan that elk hide and another friend paint it it hangs on my living room wall on top of a buffalo robe always a reminder for the evil done that day but also a reminder of the great people we lost and the ones who gave everything to try and help others.....I would like to see a picture of that elk hide.My wife and I were eating breakfast with the TV news on and the alert came one that an airplane had hit the WTC tower, the first one. Then as the camera was on the first tower burning we saw the airliner hit the second tower. It was an awfully tramatic and sad day for us American Christians. Such a terrible loss of lives, Thank God for our military. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 I will take a picture of it and post it ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) here are two pics of the hide number one as it was drying after painting and number two as it hangs in my living room.. Edited September 21, 2015 by Magwa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Picture number two this new format is pissing me off I can not get the url to load the picture.... this new format is fubared.... will not load the second pic any way I try !!!!!!! Edited September 21, 2015 by Magwa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketch Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 That had to take some time magwa! Very nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 I did not paint it a woman named Jean Hienbach painted it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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